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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What worries Anita?
(a) That they are going to go to prison.
(b) That her cousins will not have gotten out of the country yet.
(c) That their father will be killed.
(d) That the men will hurt her mother.

2. What is Chucha's opinion about these men?
(a) They are officious.
(b) They are the secret police.
(c) They are ruthless.
(d) They are hungry.

3. What is one thing Anita learns about their country's leader?
(a) He is hypocritical.
(b) He is cruel.
(c) He is arrogant.
(d) He has no conscience.

4. Besides Oscar, who helps Anita see their leader in a different light?
(a) Lucinda.
(b) Her Tio Jose.
(c) Sammy.
(d) Her Papi.

5. What does Mami tell Anita and Lucinda to do?
(a) Stay together.
(b) Flee out the back door.
(c) To keep quiet.
(d) Get Chucha and go to the store.

6. What does Chucha often see in her dreams?
(a) Monsters shaped like people.
(b) The future.
(c) She never dreams.
(d) The past altered to bizarre visions.

7. What does Anita's mother say Anita can do again when they are free?
(a) Go visit Carla.
(b) Go into the city.
(c) Talk with Sammy about anything.
(d) Write openly in her diary .

8. Where does Chucha sleep?
(a) In her coffin.
(b) On a narrow cot.
(c) On a pallet on the floor.
(d) Wherever there is space.

9. Why does Anita write with a pencil at times?
(a) She is not good at math and frequently has to erase her work.
(b) Carla's family moves constantly, so she writes their address in pencil.
(c) So she can quickly erase.
(d) Some times it is the only writing instrument in the house.

10. Where does Anita's family sleep?
(a) Out on a sleeping porch as it is very hot.
(b) Together in one room.
(c) In a guest cabin on the property.
(d) In two bedrooms.

11. How many men in dark glasses are in the Volkswagons?
(a) 3.
(b) Many.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

12. What does the teacher tell Carla to do?
(a) Help another girl with her lines.
(b) Pack everything she owns, not just the necessities.
(c) Write a list of all the props needed for the play.
(d) Repeat her last lines.

13. Who is Mr. Washburn?
(a) A U.S. military officer.
(b) A man from the British consulate.
(c) A man from the American embassy.
(d) A CIA agent.

14. Who comes over to spend time with Sammy?
(a) Michael.
(b) Oscar.
(c) No one.
(d) Sammy's second cousin.

15. What is one thing that makes Anita realize Oscar is right about their country?
(a) The way her father and mother speak in low tones all the time.
(b) The way she has to erase her diary.
(c) The way the Secret Police stand on every street corner.
(d) The way the teachers never veer from planned lessons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when word is taken to Tony's house that Mr. Smith's friends are there?

2. What makes Anita think more?

3. What does Anita help Carla do?

4. What is Anita's response to the answer Chucha gives her about her cousins?

5. How do the men search under the beds?

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